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you're driving along and bang all of a sudden your car doesn't feel right maybe it's pulling something is vibrating there it's making a weird noise congratulations you just hit a pothole and it's gonna cost you that's because your car was designed for the kinds of roads you see in car commercials while we increasingly drive on the kinds of roads you see in Mogadishu Transportation Research Group trip estimates that 27% of our major urban roads are in poor condition and just 31% in good shape and their top five metros with lousy roads are all in areas that don't have hard winters so there goes that excuse trip also estimates it in the worst area la Long Beach Santa Ana motorists average over 800 dollars annually in road condition related car maintenance and across the country the average is almost $400 now bear in mind trip is backed by road builders among others who want the government to spend more on road work but all it takes is one trip to most countries in Western Europe to realize how bad the roads are in the US today's low-profile tires take a beating on potholes and they in turn don't do much to cushion the rim of that alloy wheel ok some practical strategy look ahead at the road this should go without saying but I can't tell you how many people drive right through a huge pothole and are surprised don't tailgate that kills your visibility of potholes directly ahead brake before a pothole not in it doing that just puts more stress on your tire wheel and suspension drive straight through a pothole turning too late to avoid it means you're turning in the middle of it and that further exposes your tires sidewall and the face of your wheel and Michelin offers a pothole resistant tire in some markets but talk to your tire shop they see everything come in off the road and they'll know which tire is that the tougher sidewall than others most importantly it pays to double check if there's a pothole ahead and avoid it